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Show SECRET SOCIETIES. The head of the dominant church in Utah has given notice to his people that men who belong to secret societies will not be received in fellowship in the church. This is in the face of the fact that the whole Mormon church, if not a secret society, has secret attachments much more profound than have any of the societies against which the chief of the church inveighs, and if most direct evidence can be believed, oaths are administered and taken in the Mormon Temples much more terrible than were ever heard in any lodge or any secret society in America, except some of those in which the Anarchists and canaille of our great cities congregate. congre-gate. We know of no secret society that interferes with any man's worship of God. If this is true and we do not think it will be denied, then it is an unwarranted piece of insolence and despotism for President Smith to seek to Interdict the personal per-sonal liberty of any man who desires to join a secret society whose objects are friendship, charity and a closer drawing of man to his fellow men. |
